Improvement in shirt-collar fasteners



G. W. BRIENTNALL.

Shirt-Collar Fasteners.

Patented August 5, 1873 Inventor.

Witnesses,

AM. PHOTOL/THDGRAPHIL an N, x (assaR/vs's P1900555! J UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE BRIENTNALL, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHIRT-COLLAR FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,484, dated August 5,1873; application filed August 8, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BRIENT- NALL, of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Elastic Fastenings for Shirt-Collars, of which the following is a specification w The object of this invention is to supply a want seriously felt by persons wearing papercollars during warm weather, especially when the tips are so liable to break 01f, or the button-holes to tear out, making the collar useless. By means of my elastic fastener the collar can be saved and utilized, besides supplying an excellent foundation for attaching the necktie, so as to make it preferable, in use, to that part of the tips on the collars, as now made, with the button-holes therein.

The drawing clearly shows my simple invention, and it is readily understood on inspection.

' Figure 1 shows the elastic fastener, and Fig. 2 its application to a collar.

It consists, simply, of a piece or strip of elastic gum cloth or cord, B, with a button on each end. This simple combination can be carried n the pocketbook, and it will be found of great service for remedying a break, as it is only necessary to punch a hole or slit the band of the collar to form a button-hole on each side and apply the elastic fastener or button-band. It is found, however, frequently preferable to cut off the tips from paper collars and apply the elastic button-band from the first. The

collar can be exactly gaged to fit, and the clastic-band attachment is found more agreeable and yielding, less liable to break out, and better fitted for the attachment of neck-ties, such as are now in vogue.

I am aware that buttons to each end of a strip of cloth, for the purpose of holding garments together, made substantially as shown and described, have been used, nor do 1 claim such as my invention; but I am not aware that an elastic band or cord, with a pearl or shirt button attached to each end for the purpose of fastening shirt-collars, and constituting a special article for attachment from one collar to another as a new articleto the trade, and a foundation for a neck-tie, has ever been used. It is more especially applicable to paper-collars, and in an emergency, when the button-hole slits out,'or the tips break, besides furnishing a more easy and elastic connection, (and as such, alone, is a decided improvement.) As a collar-fastener only I claim its application as novel, highly useful, and desirable; therefore What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, the fastener for paper or other removable-collars, consisting of an elastic band or cord provided with a button at each end, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE W. BRIENTNALL.

Witnesses:

WM. B. WILEY, JACOB STAUFFER. 

